Fixing and Refreshing a Bathtub

A helpful piece from The New York Times outlines the 4 types of bathtubs and the options a homeowner has to refresh an older tub — often with significant savings over the cost of installing a new tub. The main two options that are explained in the story include tub refinishing (cleaning, repairing, priming and coating the existing tub surface) and covering (gluing a new polymer shell over the existing tub)...

From the descriptions, tub refinishing sounds more efficient — but tub covering could be an option for those fixtures that can't be refinished (due to neglect) or cannot be removed!